Invited Speakers
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Stream 1: Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations

Organizers:

Jintao Cui (PolyU), Buyang Li (PolyU), Yanping Lin (PolyU)
Invited Speakers

Georgios Akrivis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Zhiqiang Cai, Purdue University, United States
Alan Demlow, Texas A&M University, United States
Xiaobing Feng, The University of Tennessee, United States
Paul Houston, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Lili Ju, University of South Carolina, United States
Dmitriy Leykekhman, University of Connecticut, United States
Hengguang Li, Wayne State University, United States
Jichun Li, University of Nevada Las Vegas, United States
Dong Liang, York university, Canada
Christian Lubich, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Amiya Kumar Pani, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Norikazu Saito, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Jiguang Sun, Michigan Technological University, United States
Weiwei Sun, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Li-Yeng Sung, Louisiana State University, United States
Xinyuan Wu, Nanjing University, China
Dexuan Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
Liwei Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Zhimin Zhang, Beijing Computational Science and Research Center, China


Stream 2: Mathematical Methods and Computation in Biology

Organizers:

Daihai He (PolyU), Yijun Lou (PolyU), Zhian Wang(PolyU)


Invited speakers:

Raluca Eftimie, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Jian Fang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Jane Heffernan, York University, Canada
Cuiping Li, Beihang University, China
Michael Yi Li, University of Alberta, Canada
Zhigui Lin, Yangzhou  University, China
Yuan Lou, Ohio State University, United States
Qiuping Lu, Yangzhou University, China
Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Gergely Rost, University of Szeged, Hungary
Elissa Schwartz, Washington State University, United States
Junping Shi, College of William and Mary, United States
Robert Smith?, University of Ottawa, Canada
M. Stanca Ciupe, Virginia Tech University, United States
Sanyi Tang, ShaanXi Normal University, China
Nicolas Vauchelet, Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6), France
Feng-Bin Wang, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Gail Wolkowicz,   McMaster University, Canada
Yanni Xiao,  Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Xiaoqiang Zhao, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Xingfu Zou,  University of Western Ontario, Canada


Stream 3: Computational Optimization

Organizers:

Xiaojun Chen(PolyU), Ting Kei Pong(PolyU), Xiaoqi Yang (PolyU)

Invited speakers:

Radu Ioan Boţ, University of Vienna, Austria
Maryam Fazel, University of Washington, United States
Andreas Fischer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Michael Hintermüller, Humboldt-Universität, Germany
Carl Tim Kelley, North Carolina State University, United States
Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Zhaosong Lu, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tom Luo, University of Minnesota, United States /The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China
Defeng Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Marc Teboulle, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Kim Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michael Ulbrich, Technische Universität München, Gemany
Stefan Ulbrich, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Gemany
Xianfu Wang, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo, Canada
Robert Womersley, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jane Ye, University of Victoria, Canada
Yinyu Ye, Stanford University, United States
Ya-xiang Yuan, ICMSEC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shuzhong Zhang, University of Minnesota, United States


Stream 4: Tensor Computation

Organizers:

Liqun Qi (PolyU), Raymond Sze (PolyU), Guofeng Zhang(PolyU)

Invited speakers:

Lieven De Lathauwer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Olivier Giraud LPTMS, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, France
David Gleich, Purdue University, United States
Lixing Han, University of Michigan-Flint, United States
Shenglong Hu, Tianjin University, China
Zheng-Hai Huang, Tianjin University, China
Jean B Lasserre, LAAS-CNRS, France 
Wen Li, South China Normal University, China
Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago, United States
Chen Ling, Hanzhou Dianzi University, China
Ziyan Luo, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Yisheng Song, Henan Normal University, China
Yimin Wei, Fudan University, China
Qingzhi Yang, Nankai University, China
Guanglu Zhou, Curtin University, Australia 



Stream 5: Statistical Modeling and Computational Statistics

Organizer:

Jian Huang (PolyU), Xin Guo (PolyU), Binyan Jiang (PolyU), Chunling Liu (PolyU), Zhen Pang (PolyU), Heung Wong (PolyU), Xingqiu Zhao (PolyU)

Invited speakers:

Feng Chen, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Xin Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Guang Cheng, Purdue University, United States
Jingchen Hu, Vassar College, United States
Kaoru Irie, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Jianliang Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Shaobo Lin, WenZhou University, China
Chuanhai Liu, Purdue University, United States
Regina Liu, Rutgers University, United States
Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University, United States
Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Yanqing Sun, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Xiao Wang, Purdue University, United States
Jun Wen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qiang Wu, Middle Tennessee State University, United States
Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University, United States
Ji Zhu, University of Michigan, United States
Ruoqing Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States


Stream 6: Financial Mathematics

Organizers:

James Huang (PolyU), Xun Li (PolyU), Zuoquan Xu (PolyU), Cedric Yiu (PolyU),
Xiang Yu (PolyU)

Invited speakers:

Alain Bensoussan, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Nan Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wai-Ki Ching, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Claudio Fontana, Paris Diderot University (Paris VII), France
Christoph Frei, University of Alberta, Canada
Masaaki Fukasawa, Osaka University, Japan
Tim Ng, Chonnam National University, South Korea
Yong Hyun Shin, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea
Mihai Sirbu, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Ken Siu, Macquarie University, Australia
Xiaolu Tan, University of Paris Dauphine (Paris IX), France
Song Wang, Curtin University, Australia
Qi Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kazutoshi Yamazaki, Kansai University, Japan
Jiongmin Yong, University of Central Florida, United States
Yan Zeng, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Harry Zheng, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Shushang Zhu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China